Complaints about porn in the Bible!

africanhope · #1 (**permalink**) 05-17-2007, 02:08 AM

Ah well, guess it was bound to happen sometime!

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838 complaints against Bible
16/05/2007 22:18 - (SA)

Hong Kong - More than 838 complaints about the Bible had been received by the government's anti-porn watchdog on Wednesday after a Chinese website said the Christian holy book was full of stories of rape, incest and violence.

The complaints were sparked after the Chinese language website ran a formalised letter, which could be forwarded to the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority, complaining that certain passages in the Bible were indecent.

The move by the website came after the authority ruled earlier this week that a series of sex columns published in a newspaper published by students at Chinese University were indecent.

One of the columns asked students questions about incest and bestiality.

The complaint letter on the website makes specific mention of the newspaper's column.

The authority confirmed on Wednesday that it had received about 838 complaints about the Bible, compared with about 80 against the students' newspaper.

The licensing authority could not say if the complaints about the Bible would be investigated. A publication is exempt from anti-porn laws if it is deemed to be in the interest of science, literature, art or academic study.

But if the complaints against the Bible were held to be valid, the holy book would have to be sold like sex magazines, in sealed packaging with a warning that it could only be bought by people older than 18. - Sapa-dpa

AH

JavaBlack · #2 (**permalink**) 05-17-2007, 05:18 AM

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But if the complaints against the Bible were held to be valid, the holy book would have to be sold like sex magazines, in sealed packaging with a warning that it could only be bought by people older than 18. - Sapa-dpa

I wouldn't go that far. But I do think they should be sold with a warning label reading: The thoughts and opinions contained in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of The Supreme Being.

word-vomit · #3 (**permalink**) 05-18-2007, 06:51 AM

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But if the complaints against the Bible were held to be valid, the holy book would have to be sold like sex magazines, in sealed packaging with a warning that it could only be bought by people older than 18. - Sapa-dpa

I wouldn't go that far. But I do think they should be sold with a warning label reading: The thoughts and opinions contained in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of The Supreme Being.

I have to agree... Do you honestly think that the prophets who wrote the bible had God on their shoulder constantly telling them what to write? Or do you think they constantly had a hallucinogen or other "spiritual herb" of the day to help them along. The bible is an alright way to live by, as far as the 10 Commandments go, but in reality the rest are just fables... At least in my opinion. Fables that are there to act as guides, not literal happenings. With the sex thing... Idk, everyone gets frisky once in a while. Nothing wrong with that.

africanhope · #4 (**permalink**) 05-18-2007, 08:32 AM

Well, that was quick!

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Bible 'is not indecent'
18/05/2007 10:10 - (SA)

Hong Kong - Hong Kong's media regulator has rejected calls to reclassify the Bible as an indecent publication following more than 2 000 complaints about its sexual and violent content, including rape and incest.

"The Bible is a religious text which is part of civilisation. It has been passed from generation to generation," Hong Kong's Television and Licensing Authority (TELA) said in a statement issued late on Thursday.

It said it would not submit the Bible to the Obscene Articles Tribunal for classification.

The regulator received 2 041 complaints against the Bible this week, following an uproar over a sex column in a student magazine that was classified as "indecent" by authorities for asking if readers had ever fantasised about incest or bestiality.

A website launched soon afterwards campaigned to have the Bible similarly classified, citing passages with sexual and violent content it claimed went beyond that of the sex column.

But TELA said in its statement the Bible "had not violated standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable members of the community".

Publications classified as indecent in Hong Kong can only be bought by people aged over 18 and must be sealed in a wrapper with a statutory warning notice.

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